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ictus [ik-tuhs] 1. In prosody the stress, beat or rythmical accent of a poem 2. In medicine a seizure, a stroke or the beat of the pulse

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Friday, 30 August 2013

Joining In

"I will feel lost,

Unhappy and at home"

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oliver dixon: First book of poems 'Human Form' published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. New book 'Incompletion' published April 2025 by Vole Books. Poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review and World Literature Today. Philosophy guide 'Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?' published in 2019. I'm a SEND teacher and Creative Writing tutor based in Hertfordshire, as well as being a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching British modernist poetry.

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Human Form

"His poems unfold down the page like maps opening up, their images constantly altered by the revelation of what comes further along...Archive of the fleeting, Human Form is a work of suspended animations whose captures rarely linger enough to seem artificially preserved." Lytton Smith, LA Review of Books

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"Alive with curiosity and brimming with excavated mysteries, Dixon's poems are 'colour therapy for the light-deprived retina', travels for the imagination" Chris MacCabe

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